November 02, 2010

Richardson Bay, Sausalito

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Yep, that's San Francisco on the left side of the photo. But this is Sausalito on Richardson Bay, and believe it or not, during WW2 there was a very busy shipyard in operation here building "Liberty" cargo ships for the war effort. My grandfather worked here at "Marinship" as a warehouse supervisor, as did Photowannabe Sue's father, who worked as a welder.

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Ah yes, dinner time... When you don't have a Safeway supermarket card you have to go out and round up your own grub. Gotta be fast.

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An Egret and the mysteriously named Killdeer.

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I'd probably want to put a motor on this, but this Sausalito resident was out for a leisurely paddle around the many houseboats in the area.

6 comments:

I really like the bird photos. The stillwater reflections really make them stand out. Admitted, at first I got suckered in on the top set thinking it was one photo. "That's odd, I have never seen two egrets feeding so close together." You got me.

Thanks SINBAD'S DAD for the comment and compliment. I finally found your blog -- don't know what took me so long. LOVED the story about your beloved cat.

And thanks ERIK -- you know, this morning I Wikipedia'ed Killdeer to get information on their name and yes they said the same thing you did. Still, I can't imagine how the bird's call could sound so close to the word "killdeer", so I guess I had better get out there and do some listening.

And thanks Leovi -- I was looking at your Abstract Photos blog just this morning -- wonderful images!

Good Morning Donald. Just found your blog....very nice, very interesting. I will continue to 'follow'! We were just in San Fran and Sausalito about a month ago and posted very different photos of that area on my blog!